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To: stfassisi; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
They did not remove the cup, 99% of all the Masses I have attended throughout Catholic Churches in the US offer the cup. I have only seen a rare occasion when it's not offered

On the contrary, you apparently don't know your own church history very well. The Catholic church did indeed remove the cup for many years, otherwise, why the teaching that when you receive only the bread you actually receive both the body AND blood?

Communion under Both Kinds

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04175a.htm

Your problem is that there are too many of us former Catholics who remember quite clearly the time when BOTH elements of communion were NOT offered to snow us.

While it has been since added back in, there is no way you can insist that it's always been that way and maintain any credibility because EVERYONE knows better. And those who don't remember it, can simply read your church history and the controversy taking away and adding the cup back in has caused.

No person or people or organization has the legitimate authority to change that which Christ handed down to us.

1,183 posted on 06/04/2012 6:25:00 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom
"On the contrary, you apparently don't know your own church history very well."

I guarantee that the wine and Prescious Blood of Chrits were present at EVERY Mass you ever attend.

1,185 posted on 06/04/2012 6:54:48 AM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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To: metmom; Natural Law
On the contrary, you apparently don't know your own church history very well. The Catholic church did indeed remove the cup for many years

You're not being truthful!

The cup was not removed it was given to Priests at one point during the reformation and the rest of the congregation still received the full Body ,Blood ,Soul and Divinity of Christ in the Eucharist. Nobody missed out on the full Christ

Your problem is that there are too many of us former Catholics who remember quite clearly the time when BOTH elements of communion were NOT offered to snow us.

I always remember the cup being offered and I am 51 years old.

1,207 posted on 06/04/2012 4:09:00 PM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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